Do you take a receipt everywhere you go? Ie gas station, local store?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Okay, I do this at gas stations. I print out the receipts and keep them in chronological order in my car. I'm irritated when the printer in the gas pump doesn't work. I'm doubly irritated when the little screen on the gas pump tells me that I have to go see the cashier to get the receipt. Unless I'm on a road trip, I don't buy gas more than once a month. Sometimes, I can go two months without a trip to the gas station. I don't have a ton of receipts, but I have a nice healthy stack. (Two stacks, actually.)

Why do I keep them? Well, those little stacks of receipts tell a story. Where have I been? How much did gas cost a year ago? Fifteen years ago? Well, I can tell you. On May 23, 2009, I picked up a car that I purchased on eBay. The seller handed me the car key at a Shell gas station in Coppell, Texas, and I promptly filled the tank for twenty dollars at $2.39/gallon. The final time I filled the tank of that car was September 14, 2019, at a Sunoco station in Arlington, Virginia; $2.45/gallon. What was happening in the world on August 24, 2013? Gas at a Shell station in Alexandria was a whopping $3.69/gallon! On my annual drive to Florida on January 17, 2015, gas was a delightful $1.85/gallon at a Shell station in Hardeeville, North Carolina. I bought my current car on November 9, 2019, and filled the tank at the APlus at a Newark, Delaware rest stop. The receipt for that purchase was the first in a new stack of receipts that sits in the center console of my car.

Remember receipts from United States Postal Service Money Orders? Yes, I keep those too. The very first item I purchased on eBay was a laptop computer for $230.00 on February 15, 1998, that I bought from a trustworthy woman in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Your receipts don't fade by the time you get home from the gas station? That's what usually happens

[Anonymous]

Never if I can opt out. I don’t own a checkbook. I pay by credit card for everything and pay it off monthly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t keep a receipt unless I was trying to prove an alibi.

So if you see me take a receipt when I have the option not to, you can bet someone is doing a crime I’m involved in somewhere else.

This, or if I need the receipt for work or there is something weird about the purchase that I am not sure if I need to return it (3rd option happens rarely).

15:33, you must be a wild and sexy joy to live with. Not only did you live through that boredom the first time and decide you may want to relive it, but then you actually did relive it via receipts, detail it, and post about it to waste the time of others. And yet I kept reading! And reading! Because I find it oddly interesting that you find it interesting. My Qs: #1 do you periodically schedule taking out the receipts to relive 'where you were at' at the time? #2 after reliving and posting... how does it make you feel? What is the emotion? Or does that depend on the memory- are there some receipts with such bad associations that you burn them finally? (serious question/people fascinate me) #3 do you have a plan to ditch all this/dehoard before you die (if you don't have kids you love who are involved/no need to respond as it's someone else's problem in that case) and #3 just a theoretical but what would have to happen for you to try a new method/no longer keep receipts/detail it in this way?

You nuts!

Someone is absolutely nuts but it’s not PP

[Anonymous]

I always take one at fast food drive thru and it irritates me if I have to ask for it. I had a couple times when I ordered something, didn’t receive it, but didn’t have the receipt to prove I had ordered it so now I always get one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I always take one at fast food drive thru and it irritates me if I have to ask for it. I had a couple times when I ordered something, didn’t receive it, but didn’t have the receipt to prove I had ordered it so now I always get one.

I order on the app for drive thrus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mom, is that you?

My mom said she does this, and she line by line compares charges to receipts.

My mom too.